intheyard

I was looking for parts for my 1985 Mercury Cougar XR7 Turbo, and Aaron was walking the yard looking to see what was
around. After a while he came back to where I was and said " I think i may have found a car for you for the challenge next
year". I followed him through the yard, and as I turned the corner and saw the car for the first time I was not sure exactly what it
was. The only badging on the whole car was the center of the horn button. Aaron had found a Fiat.

The Fiat was very rusty and was missing its engine. It did still have its factory hard top. It looked like a neat car, but more work
than it was worth. I called Andy to tell him about some Porsche 924s that we had found, but nothing that really excited either of
us. Then I mentioned the Fiat. Andy was Very interested!! Soon after that Andy had joined us at the yard to look the car
over. While talking with the people at the junk yard we learned that the car was a 1964, but we still did not know the model.

Andy came out, looked the car over. Measured the wheel base. Fantastic!!! Its over 90" (92.4" wheelbase to be exact) making
it NHRA legal for an engine swap!! Did you ever notice the gleam in Andy's eyes when he thinks about a
high horse small block in anything?

A deal was struck and the Fiat was loaded up and brought to my shop for some paint stripping and cleanup. Hard to believe a
car with 34,507 miles could be so rusty. Definitely not 134K miles.